Schroeder: Thursday night move proves right

He didn’t gloat, not exactly, but Pat Kilkenny couldn’t help but revel just a bit.

On Saturday evening before Oregon’s game at Arizona, the Ducks’ former athletic director stood on the sidelines with an ESPN vice president, surveying the scene. And also savoring what lay ahead, if the Ducks could win.

A Civil War for the Roses.

“Absolutely unthinkable,” Kilkenny said.

Funny, since that’s what some fans thought last winter, when Kilkenny and ESPN’s Dave Brown worked out a deal to move the game to a weeknight.

Neither guy claims prescience. Thursday night football was about money, and exposure.